Clock or other indicator.



No. 887,257. PATENTBD MAY 12, 1908.

F. DE LIfiAN 'Y TAVIRA.

CLOCK OR OTHER INDICATOR.

APPLICATION FILED OUT. 5, 1905.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

FERNANDO DE LINAN Y TAVIRA, OF MADRID, SPAIN.

CLOCK OR OTHER INDICATOR.

Specification of Letters Patent. v

Patented May 12, 1908.

Application filed October 5, 1906. Serial No. 281,564.

for a clock, watch or the like, which will indicate the time in hours, minutes, etc., in such a manner as to be instantly read with- V out requiring close inspection.

The accompanying drawings will serve to Illustrate a form of dial, etc. suitable for carrying my invention into effect.

myself to the construction shown, asvarious changes may be made therein, or other forms employed,'operating in substantially the same manner to produce practically the same result.

In the drawings: Figure 1 is a face view of the clock dial illustrating my invention. Fig. 2 a view of the disk member containing the minute markings, and showing the pointers, or hands, and Fig. 3 is a detail view of the minute hand.

Referring now to the drawings Arepresents the fixed member of the dial, which is shown in the form of a ring, containing figures from one to twenty-four, consecutively arranged and equi-spaced upon the same to represent the hours. It is evident, however, that I may divide the dial into the usual twelve hour divisions.

Mounted within the ring A there is a disk 6, containing minute markings from one to sixty. This disk member b may be connected in any suitable manner with a time movement to be rotated once every twenty-four hours and has fixed thereto a pointer a, arranged to cooperate with the hour markings upon the member A.

Cooperating with the minute markings upfin the disk I), there is a hand or pointer c, w ch is connected to receive motion from the time movement above referred to and arranged to overtake the hour hand once eve hour, thus indicating upon the disk I) the action of the hour pointed out by the hand a. The minute hand, therefore, moves at such a rate that it completes a revolution I wish it I understood, however, that I do not limitand an additional amount sufficient to overtake the hour hand during each hour.

From the foregoing it will be seen .that at the hour, the minute hand will lie directly over the hour hand and point in the same direction; at the halfhour the hands will lie in the same straight line and point in opposite directions; at quarter past the hour, the

position of the minute hand will be ninety degrees in advance of the hour hand, and at quarter to the hour, it will occupy a position ninety degrees at the opposite side thereof, beingat right angles thereto in each instance. The reading of the dial is thus greatly facilitated, as the position of the hands relative to each other or the angle formed, serves to indicate the time 'with a fair degree of accuracy without requiring close inspection of the dial.

The operation, and advantage, of my invention will be apparent from the foregoing v description.

Having thus described my invention, I claim:

1. In combination, asectional dial, one section of which is fixed and graduated to indicate the fractions of a day and the other section of which is rotatable and graduated to indicate the fractions of an hour, a pointer cooperating with the movable dial section to indicate the fraction of an hour, and a second pointer movable with the rotatable section and cod crating with the fixed section thereof to int icate the fraction of a day.

2. In combination, a sectional dial, one section of whichcis fixed and graduated to indioate fractions of a day and the other section of which is movable and graduated to indicate fractions of an hour, a pointer cooperating with the movable dial section, a second pointer, carried by the movable section and coo erating with the fixed section thereof, an the movable section and the first-named pointerbeing movable in the same direction at such relative s eeds that the pointers will coincide on the our, whereby the angular relation of the pointers will indicate the fraction of the hour. v

3. An indicator comprising a fractional dial, the members of which each contain equi-spaced markings representing hours and fractions of an hour respectively, consecutively numbered, one of said members being fixed and the other rotatably mounted, a pointer movable with the rotatable member and cooperating with the markings upon the fixed member, a second pointer movable relatively to the markings u on the rotatable member, and the rotatab e member and the. second pointer bein 'movable in the same direction at such re ative speeds that the pointers will -coincide on the hour and be oppositeon the half-hour.

4. An indicator comprising a sectional dial, the members of which each contain equi-spaced markings representin hours and fractions of an hour, one member eing fixed and havin the markings thereon consecu-- tively num ered to represent the hours of a day, the other member being rotatably mounted and havmgthe markings thereon from one to sixty, a pointer movable with 7 i the rotatable member and cooperating with v the markings upon the fixed memberj-jtofgive hour indications, a second pointer movable relatively to the rotatable member and coop- 20- erating with the markin thereon to give minute indications, and t e rotatable member and the second ointer being movable at such difierent relative speeds that thepointers will coincide on the hour.

in the presence of two witnesses.

\ FERNANDO DE LINAN Y TAYIRA.

Witnesses MADDIN SUMMERS, Ron SALASAR.

25 In-testimony whereof, I affix my signature, 

